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Impy, did you ever check to see if the book that I sent you was already signed? Look on the black white page after the front cover. I'm sure that it must have been.
As for going to Dallas, there isn't much that would take precedence over that, but a commitment to my sweetie is and will always be my first priority. That's not even a hard question.
As for going to Dallas, there isn't much that would take precedence over that, but a commitment to my sweetie is and will always be my first priority. That's not even a hard question.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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It is there. 
On the fly-leaf. My excuse is that I had removed the dust jacket when I received the book so I could inspect and appreciate the hard cover (I always do this when I'm reading a book so the dust jacket doesn't get damaged during handling) and when I folded it back into place, I somehow folded the fly-leaf under the dust jacket, so the book opens directly onto the title page. So, the autograph was carefully hidden under the dust jacket.
Probably a good thing. Protects it.
On the fly-leaf. My excuse is that I had removed the dust jacket when I received the book so I could inspect and appreciate the hard cover (I always do this when I'm reading a book so the dust jacket doesn't get damaged during handling) and when I folded it back into place, I somehow folded the fly-leaf under the dust jacket, so the book opens directly onto the title page. So, the autograph was carefully hidden under the dust jacket.
Probably a good thing. Protects it.
Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.
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Voronwë the Faithful
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Awwww. Sniffle.Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:As for going to Dallas, there isn't much that would take precedence over that, but a commitment to my sweetie is and will always be my first priority. That's not even a hard question.
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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I was gonna say (and in fact thought I had said:): That's what we sweeties wanna hear. 
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
That is brilliant news, V-Man! 
Up against Planet Narnia! GO YOU!!!!
*waves pom-poms*
Up against Planet Narnia! GO YOU!!!!
*waves pom-poms*
Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:As for going to Dallas, there isn't much that would take precedence over that, but a commitment to my sweetie is and will always be my first priority. That's not even a hard question.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Voronwë the Faithful
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She came with me last year to the Mythcon, but this year we have other plans that conflict that are particularly important to her.WampusCat wrote:Take your sweetie with you! It's good for a sweetie to see her sweetie praised and honored by complete strangers.
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Yes!Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:Ya think?N.E. Brigand wrote:And a long excerpt from the interview, in English, has been published in the May 2010 issue of Beyond Bree, pp. 4-7. I predict this will lead to one or more letters in the June or July issues.Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:Another "not exactly a review" ... the Polish online magazine Ancalina has a long interview with me...
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There is, apparently, a review of Arda Reconstructed in the last issue of Hither Shore, the journal of the German Tolkien Society. I don't know who the review is by, or what it is says, whether it is positive or negative, or even whether it is in German or English (since apparently the journal is split between the two languages. I've requested that they send me a copy of the review, but I haven't heard back from them yet.
The Table of Contents of the issue is here
The Table of Contents of the issue is here
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Well, if it's in German, you have friends you can ask for a translation. Not me; my German is very rough at best. I mean one of our friends who actually speaks it.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Voronwë the Faithful
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I know who could do a Russian translation if need be...
Let the other societies take the skilled, the hopefuls, the ambitious, the self-confident. He’d take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones who knew they could make it big if only they’d been given the chance. Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and lowgrade paranoia.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Voronwë the Faithful
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I'll keep that in mind. There was the Polish interview, but that was done in English and then translated into Polish, so I didn't need to get that translated back. There was a Russian woman who listed my book on her blog as her favorite book of 2009, but that was in English. So far as I know, there hasn't been any Russian reviews or articles about it. Yet.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."